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With Remeshkova's admonition to Sergei ("Wherever you go, do not forget your homeland,") ringing in their ears, the newlyweds made their way down a red carpet, accompanied by the recorded sounds of church bells, to their honeymoon car, a cream-colored Volga sedan. Christina, who was wearing a violet print dress, nearly stumbled before getting into the Volga, which Sergei had trouble starting. Finally the couple managed to pull away to face their incongruous future...
...pictures show a concentration camp on the Tvertsa River (a tributary of the Volga) near Torzhok, 130 miles northwest of Moscow. The 18th century Borisoglebsky Monastery, with its church and tower-once a tourist attraction-has been converted into a prison for convicts who are marched into town to do heavy construction work...
...worst moments came in the late summer of 1973. Galina and Slava sailed down the Volga to give concerts and recitals in small riverside towns?the only places left to them. But in city after city, they found that the engagements had been canceled or that the posters announced the music without naming them as performers. In despair, Slava wrote a letter to Leonid Brezhnev: "Please, I have already given up concerts abroad. I only conduct in my own country. Please help me. If this situation is not changed, I will have to give up music in my country...
Particularly hard hit has been Gorky, a city on the Volga River about the size of Buffalo, N.Y. Gorky has only three small Orthodox churches in outlying areas to serve an estimated 150,000 active communicants. Last month, with considerable courage, 1,700 people signed a petition asking the regime to reopen one of Gorky's 100 or so closed churches; many are now in use as bakeries, museums or warehouses. According to the petition, the Gorky churches are so crowded on Sundays that their congregations overflow onto the streets and old people faint in the crush...
They were unmistakable as they got off the Aeroflot TU-104 turbojets and into waiting Volga cars: somewhat shapeless heavy wool overcoats, dark gray felt hats and impassive faces that, to the knowing, suggest the KGB officer. Hundreds of them were flown in from Moscow to forgather in East Berlin's grim, hulking Ministry of the Interior, the headquarters of the nation's vast security-police network. Other Russian officers were dispatched to secret-police stations around the country. According to Western intelligence analysts, this activity meant that the Soviets were now directly supervising the campaign of repression...